Improvement in shutter-fasteners



ALEEET L.. 4FRANCE, or WILMINGTON, DELAWARE;

Letters Peten-t 170,107,354, dated September 13, 1870.

-v IMPROVEMENT IIN SHUTTER-FASTENERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and-making 4parl: of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT L. FRANCE, ofthe city of Wilmington, in the State of Delaware, have invented a new and-useful Combined Anti-Battlingv Shutter-Bower, Stayback, and Fastener; and lI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the construction and operation of thesanie, reference heilig had to the annexed drawing'maliinga part of this specification, in which-'- Figure '1 is a front inside view of thc window, with the shutters bowed vby means of the bowcr. V

Figure 2 is a front inside view ofthe. shutters, closed and secured by the fastener.

Figui-e3 is a vertical section of the window-frame, giving an end view ot the shutters stayed back or secured in place against the wall by the stayback.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the hold or catch, d, which 'is fastened upon the shutter at itslower end. Figure 5 is a side view of theA latch, (log, or brace, 'A c.

Figure (iis the rabbcted plate, c, which receives thebrace when used for holding the shutter open against the wall.

Nature and Objects of Iilwcntion.

M'y invention relates to a movable pivoted latch, dog, or brace, fastened to the sill of the window in' such position that itwill readily work into a catch having holes in its'i'ace, aud fastened upon the inside lace ot' the shutter, and bow open the shut/ter at ditferent angles, and also working or shuttnginto a rabbcted plate set in the heel or lower end of the shutter when opened ont against the wall, so as to hold it lirmly back, and prevent rattling.

General Description.

a is the jamb of the window; 'l b is the 'sill l c'is the latch, dog, or brace; d is lthe catch-plate; c isv the rabbeted plate; andf is-the shutter.

If the shutters require fastening, when closed, the latch, dog, or brace is-inserted in the last hole' ot' 'the catch, which at once prevents its being opened frox'nr the outside.l When. it is desirable to bow the shutters,4 the latch is inserted in the second, third,vor next'fcl-A: lowing holes of thccatch, and you secure the shutter'- at any convenient angle, and, when you desire to fas-'v ten the shutters back, they arejopenedj to the wall, and the latch, dog, orvbrac'e is inseitedin therabbetedv I -plate inthe heel of the shutters', which are then held, g

in place, secured from rattling.

The latch c is secured inl a recess inthe pivoted.

standard "g. The latch'has a vertical movement o itself, and the standard rotates with it.

Claims.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination of the pivoted and recessed bolt secured upon the window-sill, with the lockinglatch and catchp'late furnished with a series of holes;V

vall arranged as and for the purposes set forth.

2. Therotatingrecessed post and latcli,eombined withtbe plate e, as and for the purposes set forth.

Wilmington, Delaware, April 27,( 1870. Witnesses: ALBERT L. FRANCE.

ALLEN VooRHEEs LEsLE'Y, J. S. VALENTINE. 

